Tue Sep 19, 2006, 04:20pm
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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie
The other issue I thought of becomes catchability. While its fair to say that the time elapse between the pass and tip in the OU/Oregon game was too short for the contact to be ruled illegal (though that is still debatable), let's take another situation:
A81 is tackled by B40 and goes down while the pass is in the air, but right after this, B22 jumps up and tips the pass out of bounds. Let's just add that there's no way A81 would have made that catch had he not been tackled. Do we have DPI or waive off due to uncatchability?
I agree this scenario is unlikely, but as soon as we ignore it, we will have it in a game.
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It's not unlikely at all ... ask LSU. And I (along with the SEC Commish) agree with your assessment in this sitch.
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